I really misread your first announcement and thought you were saying she was born with red hair! :)

_________________"Noooo! Karyn, you have to stop posting old Jensen pics. He looks way too smooth in those pics, like if I touch his face it'll feel like silk or bosoms or something."-mixmaster_moIt's Raining Kale

Baby girl's placenta is barely touching my cervix, yay! A few more weeks and we should be golden. Well, there's something I never thought I'd find myself saying, much less cheering about.

I also totally freaked out my mom by saying that when she was pregnant with me, the eggs that would become the babies I'm carrying were inside of her. Maybe I should have waited until after dinner.

_________________"Noooo! Karyn, you have to stop posting old Jensen pics. He looks way too smooth in those pics, like if I touch his face it'll feel like silk or bosoms or something."-mixmaster_moIt's Raining Kale

And all the good thoughts worked, everyone! Baby girl is no longer scary-skinny and back to being in proportion to herself. She had a massive growth spurt over the past two weeks, and now ultrasound measurements are guessing her weight at almost 7-1/2 lbs. Everything else looks good, too (fluid, placenta, movements, all that jazz) so we're just waiting for her to grace us with her presence.

just got back from a long and mostly internet free holiday, so congrats to all the recent babies! twins! ginger!

i was at a wedding this weekend, and the bachelorette party the weekend before, plus a ton of visiting and so on in between. other than a somewhat hellish experience getting a bridesmaid dress altered in the eleventh hour, it was fun, and exhausting. the bride's sister was 36 weeks pregnant AND had her two young girls with her, and she was a forking rockstar. i would have been in bed by 8 if i had been her.

i managed to stay up til 1am to party with a bunch of old university friends, but man, i was so wrecked the next day. i'd dance for like 5 minutes, then go recuperate for 10 minutes with a cranberrry juice and cake. i am really really glad i get to put my boring old lady pants back on and not have to hang out with any more partying, childless, non-pregnant people for the next 3 months!!

Glad you got a better picture of the fetus, Noelle. I'm 37 weeks today. Does everyone with a male partner start trying to have daily sex now for the prostaglandins? And I guess like a swan song before the sleep dep?

Exciting mapmapmap! At 37 weeks I started drinking red raspberry leaf tea and taking evening primrose oil daily. A week and a half later I went into labor with a fully effaced cervix, and my uterus was so "toned" that it pushed my baby out by itself! I did also have sex the day my water broke. So who knows, maybe the tea and the prostaglandins were helpful!